EDMONSHAM, a parish in that part of the hundred of CRANBORNE which is in the Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET, 1½ mile (S. by E.) from Cranborne, containing 262 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £6. 5. The Earl of Shaftesbury was patron in 1826. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. There is a chalybeate spring in the parish.

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